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America’s longest-held wrongly jailed woman is finally free

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Appealing Court Upholds Freedom for Woman Whose Conviction Was Overturned After 43 Years Behind Bars

Associated Press

An appellate court has upheld the freedom of a woman who spent 43 years behind bars for a killing that her attorneys argue was committed by a discredited police officer. The court ruled that some arguments raised by Bailey's office bordered on the absurd and gave prosecutors 10 days to refile charges.

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5 months ago

One GOP Attorney General Is Obsessed With Keeping Innocent People Behind Bars. He Just Won His Primary.

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All across this country, prisoners who have been falsely convicted dream about being exonerated. As the Washington Post reported, “Within hours of that court’s ruling, appealed to the state’s top court to keep Dunn in prison.” Bailey claimed that he wanted to ensure the jury’s verdict was “respected.” At first, Bailey got his way, and the state Supreme Court halted …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Missouri Supreme Court halts release of man with overturned conviction as he was about to go free

Associated Press

— The Missouri Supreme Court halted the immediate release Wednesday of a man whose murder conviction was overturned — just as the man was about to walk free. A St. Louis Circuit Court judge had ordered Christopher Dunn, now 52, to be released by 6 p.m. CDT Wednesday and threatened the prison warden with contempt if Dunn remained imprisoned. St. …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Woman Who Served 43 Years In Prison Walks Free After Conviction Overturned

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LOADING ERROR LOADING CHILLICOTHE, Mo. The judge originally ruled on June 14 that Hemme’s attorneys had established “clear and convincing evidence” of “actual innocence” and he overturned her conviction. “It shouldn’t be this hard to free an innocent person.” During a court hearing Friday, Judge Ryan Horsman said that if Hemme wasn’t released within hours, Bailey himself would have to …

Evidence Court Judge Missouri Attorney Free Released

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Missouri woman who served 43 years in prison is free after her murder conviction was overturned

Associated Press

— A woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years of a life sentence was released Friday, despite attempts in the last month by Missouri’s attorney general to keep her behind bars. The judge originally ruled on June 14 that Hemme’s attorneys had established “clear and convincing evidence” of “actual innocence” and he overturned her conviction. “It …

Prison Evidence Court Judge Missouri Attorney Free

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Missouri woman who served 43 years in prison is free after murder conviction was overturned

LA Times

Sandra Hemme, center, meets with family and other supporters after she was released from prison Friday in Chillicothe, Mo. “I get that a lot.” The judge originally ruled on June 14 that Hemme’s attorneys had established “clear and convincing evidence” of “actual innocence” and overturned the conviction. “It shouldn’t be this hard to free an innocent person.” During a court …

Prison Evidence Judge Missouri Attorney Free Released

6 months ago

Appeals court orders release of woman whose murder conviction was reversed after 43 years in prison

Associated Press

— An appellate court has ordered the release of a Missouri woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years in prison, but the state attorney general is still trying to keep her behind bars as the case is reviewed. Monday’s ruling by a panel of appeals court judges comes after a judge ruled that Sandra Hemme’s attorneys …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

A woman may be freed after 43 years for a grisly murder. Was a police officer the real killer?

Associated Press

A Missouri woman has spent 43 years in prison for a grisly 1980 murder that her lawyers say was actually committed by a police officer with ties to the murder scene. Her attorneys argue that evidence was suppressed implicating Michael Holman, a police officer at the time in St. Joseph, a city on a bend in the Missouri River roughly …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Missouri woman’s murder conviction tossed after 43 years. Her lawyers say a police officer did it

Associated Press

A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing that her attorneys argue was actually committed by a now-discredited police officer. They alleged in a petition seeking her exoneration that authorities ignored Hemme’s “wildly contradictory” statements and suppressed evidence implicating Michael Holman, a then-police officer who …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Attorneys argue woman is innocent in 1980 killing and shift blame to former Missouri police officer

Associated Press

— Attorneys for a Missouri woman who has spent more than four decades in prison for a murder her supporters believe she did not commit argued at a hearing this week that the evidence points to a police officer who was investigated for burglaries and later went to prison. The only evidence linking Sandra Hemme to the 1980 killing of …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Missouri woman imprisoned for 42 years to get court hearing that could lead to release

Associated Press

— A Missouri woman who has spent more than four decades in prison for a murder her supporters believe she did not commit will get a court hearing that could lead to her release. The Missouri attorney general’s office has agreed to an evidentiary hearing for Sandra Hemme, 63, who was convicted of murder in the Nov. 12, 1980, killing …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Now, two roadshows by Modi in Bengaluru — on Saturday and Sunday

The Hindu

This weekend, just ahead of elections on May 10, Bengaluru will witness not one roadshow by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as earlier planned by the BJP, but two — on Saturday as well as Sunday. The roadshow, earlier scheduled to be held for eight hours on Saturday alone, has now been split into two parts — on Saturday and Sunday …

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2 years, 3 months ago

'Namma' Bengaluru Has Tech & Tools to Prevent Redux of Sept Floods. All It Needs Now is Will - News18

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“We have clearly lost respect for nature’s line and contours. While dumping of waste in the storm water drains and tanks is another major hurdle that needs to be addressed, Ravi Chander and Rao say there is an urgent need to integrate urban agriculture and other revenue-generating activities around the tanks, especially during the dry seasons on the tank beds. …

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America’s longest-held wrongly jailed woman is finally free

Appealing Court Upholds Freedom for Woman Whose Conviction Was Overturned After 43 Years Behind Bars

One GOP Attorney General Is Obsessed With Keeping Innocent People Behind Bars. He Just Won His Primary.

Missouri Supreme Court halts release of man with overturned conviction as he was about to go free

Woman Who Served 43 Years In Prison Walks Free After Conviction Overturned

Missouri woman who served 43 years in prison is free after her murder conviction was overturned

Missouri woman who served 43 years in prison is free after murder conviction was overturned

Appeals court orders release of woman whose murder conviction was reversed after 43 years in prison

A woman may be freed after 43 years for a grisly murder. Was a police officer the real killer?

Missouri woman’s murder conviction tossed after 43 years. Her lawyers say a police officer did it

Attorneys argue woman is innocent in 1980 killing and shift blame to former Missouri police officer

Missouri woman imprisoned for 42 years to get court hearing that could lead to release

Now, two roadshows by Modi in Bengaluru — on Saturday and Sunday

'Namma' Bengaluru Has Tech & Tools to Prevent Redux of Sept Floods. All It Needs Now is Will - News18